Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

University of Birmingham

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Independent Analyst

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Independent expert

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University